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noun

Cassia n.

(Bot.) A genus of leguminous plants (herbs, shrubs, or trees) of many species, most of which have purgative qualities. The leaves of several species furnish the senna used in medicine.

The bark of several species of Cinnamomum grown in China, etc.; Chinese cinnamon. It is imported as cassia, but commonly sold as cinnamon, from which it differs more or less in strength and flavor, and the amount of outer bark attached. Note: The medicinal "cassia" (Cassia pulp) is the laxative pulp of the pods of a leguminous tree (Cassia fistula or Pudding-pipe tree), native in the East Indies but naturalized in various tropical countries.

Cassia bark, the bark of Cinnamomum cassia, etc. The coarser kinds are called Cassia lignea, and are often used to adulterate true cinnamon.

Cassia buds, the dried flower buds of several species of cinnamon (Cinnamomum cassia, atc..).

Cassia oil, oil extracted from cassia bark and cassia buds; called also oil of cinnamon.

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... the morning rinse in cold water; add lump of alum as big as a small egg to 1 gallon cold water. Put the melon in the cold water and after it comes to a boil, boil ten minutes. To 7 pounds melon, 1 quart cider vinegar, 2 ounces cassia buds or stick cinnamon, 1 ounce cloves, 3 pounds granulated sugar. Let this boil, then add fruit, cook until clear and you think it is done; seal up in jars and keep at ...

— The Cookery Blue Book • Society for Christian Work of the First Unitarian Church, San

... should more properly have done it, but she having failed, I consider myself answerable for her debts. I am now trying to do it in the midst of commercial noises, and with a quill which seems more ready to glide into arithmetical figures and names of gourds, cassia, cardemoms, aloes, ginger, or tea, than into kindly responses and friendly recollections. The reason why I cannot write letters at home, is, that I am never alone. Plato's—(I write to W.W. now)—Plato's double-animal parted never longed more to be reciprocally re-united ...

— Selected English Letters (XV - XIX Centuries) • Various

... thy garments smell of myrrh, aloes, and cassia: out of the ivory palaces, whereby they have ...

— The Book of Common Prayer - and The Scottish Liturgy • Church of England

... a tree resembling the orange, the flowers of which very much resemble those of the laurel both in size and figure. There are three sorts of cinnamon. The finest is taken from young trees; a coarser sort from the old ones; and the third is the wild cinnamon, or cassia, which grows not only in Ceylon, but in Malabar and China, and of late years in Brazil. The company also derives great profit from an essential oil drawn from cinnamon, which sells at a high price; and it also makes considerable gain by the precious ...

— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 11 • Robert Kerr

... Prunes, prunus domestica. Cassia sistula. Tamarinds, crystals of tartar, unrefined sugar. ...

— Zoonomia, Vol. II - Or, the Laws of Organic Life • Erasmus Darwin

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